Is Polanski's Victim His Best Ally?
The lady who, as a teenager, was sexually assaulted by film director Roman Polanski, may yet prove his greatest ally.
Samantha Geimer, who was 13 at the time of the crime, has urged a dismissal of the case through her lawyers in a motion that was filed at Californian courts last week.
"No matter what his crime, Polanski was entitled to be treated fairly; he was not," the motion papers declare.
Mrs Geimer, in keeping with a recent documentary about the 1977 trial, has suggested that the original judge - now deceased - was corrupt.
News of Mrs. Geimer's actions are concurrent with a formal demand by the U.S. officials to extradite Polanski, as submitted by American Embassy staff in Bern on October 24th.
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His victim has been haunted her entire life by this scandal, both personally and by the media, and has not been able to live a normal life. It is not surprising that she now simply wants to be left alone. However, Polanski is a rapist. And being allowed to simply escape the consequences for a certain amount of years should not be OK let alone good reason to leave him alone now. Just because it was a long time ago doesn't mean it simply didn't happen or that it has magically become OK to drug and rape children. I am appalled that this typically respectable website can write about this child rapist in such a way that implies that Polanski should be forgiven - because his "victim is his best ally". Disgusting.
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